Package-tie.



A. LVKERSHNER.

PACKAGE TIE.

APPucATloN FILED MAR. 1a, 1914.

Patented Apr. 4, 1916.

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Beit known that LANDREW J. KERsHNER, a citizen ofthe United States, residing at Maybeury. in the county of McDowell andv Stateof `West Virginia, have invented new and usefullmprovernents in Package-Iles,

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The invention embodies, among other features, the provision of a simple and effective tie which, when applied `tothe package, can be so arranged as to take up any slack so that the tie will fit snugly around the p'ackage and properly secure the same inf/the event that the package embodies a two part box or in the event that the package includes a wrapping Wrapped around the box or the like and which wrapping should be neatly and snugly held in wrapped position .about the box.

One of the primary uses of my invention is in connection with trunks and in which the invention aiords an additional means of securing the cover of the trunk to the body thereof aside from the usual lock, while at the same time, the invention, when made of rope or leather, will act as a cushion for the trunk to deaden any shock or jar to which the trunk may be subjected when the same is dropped rather heavily to the floor or ground when unloading the trunk from a Wagon.

In the further disclosure of the invention reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, constituting a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference denote corresponding parts in all the views, and in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a package or trunk having my device applied thereto, the same being in normal or slack position; and Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the device tightened up around the package or trunk.

Referring more particularly to the views, I disclose a package 10 vof a substantially rectangular construction and around which extend a series of bands 11 preferably arranged transversely to the longitudinal plane of the package 10, as shown, and the said bands are preferably -equi-distantly spaced apart throughout the -length of the specification of Lettgrsrat'nt. 'y

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` Application led March 18, 1914. Serial No. 825,577. Y

package. Each band .is-providedv with opposed upper and lower diamondshaped por- Y y tions 12, with the `upper diamond .shapedportion of each band lying vagainst the top ofthe package and the. lower. diamond shaped portiony of-each bandrlving against'v the bottom of ther-package.' The diamond shaped portion. ofvr one band isconnected with the diamond shaped portion of the next adjacent band by: a connecting member.- 13, as shown, and secured to the diamond shaped portions 12 of the 'outermost band on the Package, and at each end of the'package, are suitable straps 14 having buckles v.15

thereon.

Now it will be understood that the bands` 11`are preferably made of rope or leather and that the diamond shaped portions 12 thereof are made of the same material as are also the connecting members 13 and straps 14. The straps 14 are initially open or disconnected from the buckles thereof so that the band can be slipped over the package, and it will be apparent that when the bands are initially slipped over the package, the diamond shaped portions will be elongated Y transversely to the longitudinal plane of the package, or, in other Words, will be elon-V gated in the plane of thel bands of which they form portions. Now when the straps 14 are connected with the buckles 15 and each strap is successively tightened it will be apparent that the configuration of the diamond shaped portions 12 will be changed as shown in Fig. 2, so that the diamond shaped portions will be elongated in the longitudinal plane of the package, or, in other words, will be elongated in the plane of the connecting members 13, thus taking up anyslack in the bands 11 and the connecting members 13 as the pull on the straps 14 is increased so that when the straps have been tightened to their limit the entire structure will closely and snugly fit around the packwhich it is desired to provide an additional-` securing means that will also tend to act as a protection for the trunk or box', as mentioned.

yHaving ythus described my invention, I claim:

In a package tie, a plurality of spaced parallel bands, each Vterminally provided with eyes disposed adjacent the 4opposite longitudinal edges of the package, an end- Uvpes of this patent may be Obtained 01? fivev cents web, by addressing; the wommiiener ef; Ennis, f

less loop of flexible material passed through Said eyes Qi each. bandi a. plurality 0f Mined connecting strips interposed between Veach pair of loops and arranged to lie in a plane, with the longitudinal center of the package,

' an eye on each end of the strips through which the adjacent side of each loop 'is passed, an additional strip projecting fromV the final side of the two outermost loops, aY buckle-carried by the'free end of each of theV last mentioned strips, and a strap extending longitudinally about the-,package and-havq ing its free ends adjustably associated with said buckles to cause said loops toassume a diamond shaped outline, whereby to simultaneously tighten said bandsA transversely of the packagey with the tightening of said Washington, 0'. 

